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mitered

mitered is the alternative form of mitred.

mitered is the simple past and past participle of miter.

Meaning of mitred

Adjective

mitred (not comparable)

  1. Wearing an abbot's or bishop's mitre.
    • Our Fathers must hide themselves rather like robbers who chuse a leader, than godly priests who elect a mitred Abbot. […] And mark me, brother! not in the proudest days of the mitred Abbey, was a Superior ever chosen, whom his office shall so much honour, as he shall be honoured, who now takes it...1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and...
  2. Having a mitre joint.

Origin of mitered

From miter + -ed.

Questions about mitered

What is mitered the alternative form of?
Mitered is the alternative form of mitred.

Words near mitered in the dictionary

  1. miter saws
  2. miter square
  3. miter squares
  4. miter-joint
  5. miter-joints
  6. mitered
  7. miterer
  8. miterers
  9. mitering
  10. miters
  11. miterwort

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